After having spent two absolutely amazing weeks travelling through Cuba, which by the way will be the topic of our next post, we are back in Mexico, ready to discover even more unique places. With the official start of Live-Bio in Greece approaching, we thought of bringing you all a bit closer to our lifestyle concept.
Live-Bio is based on 360⁰ of balanced life, represented by the 8 themes shown in the pictogram. Here is a brief explanation of each theme and what it means to us.
NATURE
Living closer to nature and respecting our environment is one of our key beliefs at Live-Bio. After having spent most of our days in air conditioned offices with barely any natural light, we thought we need to change it as it is somewhat…un-natural. At Live-Bio we wake up with the sun, looking at the sea each morning, which gives us strength and calmness for the day. The sea accompanies us throughout the day until the sun sets gloriously behind the horizon. We also enjoy our walks around the area, there are some stunning paths perfect for hiking or some yoga and meditation if you feel more like it.
Nature – flowers
FOOD
At Live-Bio we support locally produced, natural food. Most of the time it is organic as well (some of the products have relevant certification to prove it), but we thought it is more important that the produce is made or grown locally and not imported, which means a lower carbon footprint and effectively more eco friendliness. Imagine collecting fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs from your garden every morning, going to the fish market and buying freshly caught fish, sourcing locally produced cheese, baking your own bread, and then dressing all this delicious food with locally made extra virgin olive oil… Doesn’t it sound like heaven? Well, it does to us! At the end of the day this was the diet of the Greek gods, wasn’t it?
Food – fresh onions
ACTIVITIES
How can you live a healthy life without a healthy, strong body? Exercising is like food, and we think one should do a bit of it every day. It gives you energy and it clears your mind. Be it jogging, cycling, yoga, swimming or simply walking, we try to do it on a regular basis. We also encourage our guests to spend their time actively at Live-Bio. We organise cycling tours, practice yoga with them, take them swimming or snorkelling and encourage them to discover the area on foot. Our motto is “live active, live healthy”.
Activity – yoga
LEARNING
Learn something new every day, keep your mind active. Just like the body, brain also needs exercise. And it is never too late to learn. At Live-Bio we are challenging ourselves to learn new things on a regular basis. From baking bread to editing videos, from growing vegetables to learning a new language. We will be organising workshops as well where we will invite an expert in a specific field who will share the knowledge with the interested crowd. These workshops will be organised mostly on the weekends so that everyone can find time to participate. A few topics we had in mind to start with are: cooking, photography, guitar playing, yoga, martial arts, sailing, olive oil making. There will be also special workshops for kids, which can be organised any time, especially to keep them busy while the parents are relaxing at our property.
Learning – santorini
TRAVEL
“Who lives sees much, who travels sees more” says an Arab proverb. We fully agree with it, hence we try to travel as much as we possibly can. Travelling teaches you things you cannot learn any other way, it opens your mind and soul to the world and the people you meet on your way. Having said that, we would like to offer our Live-Bio guests the ability to “travel through experience”. We would like you to forget you are a tourist and get the taste of the places you visit from the perspective of a local person. Eat food that they eat, sing songs they sing, listen to their stories, tell them yours’, see the sunsets and sunrises through their eyes. Lastly, we would like to create a network of trusted places around Greece (with time it could expand internationally), which would offer a similar experience to Live-Bio. Eventually we will aim to create a community of Live-Bio places that are run by people we connected with, sharing similar beliefs and following similar life philosophy.
Travel – Cuba
SAILING
Yes we know, sailing could form part of ACTIVITIES or TRAVEL, but it is so dear to us that we decided to keep it separate. Sailing is the best way to visit the Greek islands, as it offers a lot of flexibility and privacy. It is also one of the most eco friendly ways of travelling. Some of the islands in our proximity are uninhabited and the only way to visit them is by boat. Imagine swimming or snorkelling in secluded, untouched bays of the Aegean sea, often with nobody else around. Now stop imagining, this is an experience we can offer at Live-Bio. Our boat, Naziara (in Greek it means “playful girl”), can easily take 5 people on board. Its captain has almost 30 years of experience and a professional skipper’s licence, so if you decide you would like to learn the trade as well, it can be easily organised.
Sailing – towards the sunset
CREATIVE HUB
Our idea here is to make Live-Bio a hub for creativity and innovation achieved through collaboration. We believe that working together, sharing ideas and experiences, learning from each other is the best way of innovating and finding new ideas. We have planned to create a common space at the property where people will be able to do brainstorming, exchange their ideas, and ask for the opinion of others. We would like to invite individuals from various fields to stay with us, collaborate and create. You would be doing it in a natural, stress free environment, with sunsets and sunrises indicating the time.
We also see Live-Bio as a perfect working environment, especially for those ones of you that can work from anywhere as long as the Internet is provided. You can count on that of course.
Creative – collaboration
CULTURE
Last but not least, there is culture which to us means various expressions of art, history and folk. “Food for the soul” as some would say. We are both big fans of various forms of art like music, theatre, dance, photography, film and painting to mention a few. There is a lot of artistic activity in our vicinity as well as on the nearby islands of Hydra and Spetses. Our proximity to them makes it really easy to access various exhibitions, shows or concerts that take place throughout the year. A very unique place worth mentioning is a theatre of Epidavros (1 hour away from our property), which is one of the oldest in the world and named a World Heritage site by UNESCO. There are still plays being performed there, which is an experience not to be missed.
Culture – Epidavros
We hope this post has made our concept clearer. It is our invitation to all of you. Come and join us!